Crossword-Solution: ENATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Enation | n. | Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ENATION | anagram | ANTOINE, ETONIAN |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ENATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A growing out. | 1 answer |
| Kinship on mother's side | 1 answer |
| Maternal kinship | 1 answer |
| RELATION through mother | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ENATION (4)
For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling--intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation.
Whether these supernumerary petals are formed by chorisis or by enation cannot, with certainty, be determined without examining the early stages of development.
True chorisis or fission, for instance, is usually a congenital affection, arising at a very early period of development, while enation takes place from structures which are all but complete as to their organisation, even though they may not have attained their full dimensions.
The development of adventitious growths by chorisis or enation has been frequently alluded to in the foregoing pages, and many illustrations have been given of the power that leaves have of branching in more than one plane, owing to the projection of secondary growing-points from the primary organ.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1956–1993).